War is full of secrets, lies, and struggles. Trying to escape war brings mental illness, while completely avoiding it can cause conflicts within yourself." This quote by Ronald Green seems to describe exactly what the war is like in John Knowles novel "A Separate Peace". In "A Separate Peace", his use of analogies describes the war as being like snow, like a wave, and like an operating room.
To start out John Knowles uses an analogy comparing war and snow. The snow is like noiseless invaders conquering because they take possession so gently. When it left it came back even harder. Both the snow and war seemed to invade the school quietly and unexpectedly. The snow and war seemed to be one, when the snow came lightly the war was more distant, while when it came down hard the war was breathing down their necks. When large amounts of snow came, as did the information about the war. Both the war and the snow came theatrically.
In addition to the war being like snow it is also like......
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